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<TITLE>UMASS UGV Introduction</TITLE>


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<H1>The UMass Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Project</H1>
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<h2>Project Overview:</h2>

The UMass Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) project is part of the larger
<!WA1><a href="http://ftp.arpa.mil/">ARPA</a>-sponsored UGV effort. From
the spring of 1991 to the spring of 1994, UMass' role in the UGV
program was to develop the Mobile Perception Laboratory (MPL), a
NAVLAB-like vehicle designed to support research at UMass and elsewhere
on landmark-based navigation, motion &
<!WA2><a href="http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~ravela/oda.html">stereo-based obstacle avoidance</a>,
and 3D map construction. The MPL was completed and turned over to TACOM
in May of 1994.<p>

Currently, the UMass UGV team is looking to contribute to ARPA's UGV
program with research in terrain reconstruction, stealth navigation behaviors
and RSTA.<p>

<h2>Research Projects</h2>

<!WA3><img align=middle src="http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/projects/ugv/images/dummy.gif"> Terrain Reconstruction<p>

<!WA4><img align=middle src="http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/projects/ugv/images/stealth_icon.gif"> 
<!WA5><a href="http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~ravela/stealth.html">Stealth Behaviors</a><p>

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<!WA7><a href="http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~ross/rsta.html">CSU/UMass/Alliant RSTA</a><p>

<!WA8><img align=middle src="http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/projects/ugv/images/hmmwv_icon.gif"> Mobile Perception Laboratory <p>

<h2>Other ARPA-sponsored UGV Research</h2>

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The following is a partial list of other ARPA-sponsored UGV contractors who 
have Mosaic pages describing their work... <p>

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<i> <!WA9><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/alv/member/www/navlab_home_page.html">Carnegie-Mellon University</a> (NAVLAB)<p>
<i> <!WA10><a href="http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/tasks/ugv/homepage.html">JPL</a> (Obstacle Detection)<p>
<i> <!WA11><a href="http://krusty.eecs.umich.edu/ugv/homepage.html">University of Michigan</a> (Multi-vehicle Planning)<p>
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... and more information about the 
University of Massachusetts <!WA12><a href="http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/welcome.html"> Computer Vision Lab </a> 
can be found here.


